On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 00:28:18 Christopher Drane wrote:

After much surfing, scratching my head, asking many questions, failed installs, newbe stupidity and to much to drink, i have come to the conclusion that my LT winmodem is not going to work with my laptop. This brings me to my question, or 2

Will a PCMCIA modem work (as long as its not a winmodem)? or What about a USB modem, is there a preferance between the two?

I can't answer your question myself but you could look the following two web sites - on these sites somewhere you will find a table listing modems and their Linux compatibilty.

http://www.linmodems.org/ http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html

Steve.

Christopher Drane chrisdrane@btinternet.com wrote:

After much surfing, scratching my head, asking many questions, failed installs, newbe stupidity and to much to drink, i have come to the conclusion that my LT winmodem is not going to work with my laptop. This brings me to my question, or 2

Will a PCMCIA modem work (as long as its not a winmodem)? or What about a USB modem, is there a preferance between the two?

I would not ask such questions if adverts in the computer mags would tell you if products are linux supported. Just don't want to buy a new modem and find it won't work.

I have a Dell Latitude with a Psion Dacom 56k Gold Card PCMCIA modem which works perfectly well under Debian 2.2.

Barry Samuels